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[annarti.livejournal.com]

Finally, after I decided YEARS ago that the yrae stone is boring and turned it into a feather made of shell, I've gotten around to designing what the thing looks like. Inspired in part by these and in part by, well, everything Raykin. Also~ they have to be relatively easily reproduced because I don't want to have to look up reference every time I draw the damn things.

1-3 and 5 are sort of very loosely based on what the royal insignia currently stands as, but of course that's highly likely to change depending on the yrae feather, so whatever works. I just needed a starting point. Not really sure what I think of these. They might be a bit fiddly and they'll never come out the same unless I check my reference, which I don't want to do for my most drawn characters.

Thennnn moved onto more deserty inspirations. 4 and 9 come from spinifex and yakka plants, spiky desert plants that populate Raykin (they don't really do cacti). I like these! They still look like feathers but with that spiky everything-will-kill-you look that the Aussie--and hence Raykinian--desert has for all its everything. 8, similar idea but with a palm sort of motif as well, only I don't really think that'd be practical to draw time and again. Sketching was easy, but to actually DRAW it would likely be hellish.

6 and 7 are like the wiiinnnnnd and probably 7 is the best of those. They were fun 8D

10 to 12 based sort of on sand dunes. Idk. It was working in my head and I couldn't get it to come out in sketches.

13 to 15 from sand on the beach looks when the tide washes back, leaving the little rivulets in the sand. Desert. Sand. Yep. Also came out kinda like fire on 13 and 15. I love these ones.

So, being as I have three yrae feathers (Yan, Yamin and Nimay) and that the thing is ~*MAGIC*~ I can do whatever the crap I want with it. So I like the spinifex/yakka ones, the wiiiinnnnd and the sand rivulets best. Work with them. The rivulets ones would be easiest to turn into royal iconography and such so that'll be Yan's.

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[drazzi.livejournal.com]

I cannot see these on my laptop screen well :/ A slightly darker version maybe? I wanna be able to see what you're talking about.

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Easy fix :D

[drazzi.livejournal.com]

12 really seems to jump at me, but I'll have a proper think after work/awake time xx It seems a nice shape and such though. And the dunes idea sounds interesting.

[drazzi.livejournal.com]

Yeah I like like 10 and 12 best. I like the idea of the dunes because you know. Sand magic but also I think in a way it looks like waves and the way Yamin describes dripping her magic and its coldness, that relates to water too So YES.

I also think they look sleekest and such.

That said 13 is also pretty sweet looking.